ThoughtRipples launch GuruSparsh to pep up student safety

Trivandrum: In an attempt to do away with the information lag between parents of students and the faculty of the school the students study in, Trivandrum-based software development and web services company ThoughtRipples has come up with an innovative web service christened GuruSparsh.

Aimed primarily at keeping parents in the loop about the attendance and whereabouts of school children after they leave for school and before they reach home, GuruSparsh is an education system tool that would facilitate and ease communication between faculty, parents and students.

According to Deepak Cherry George, CEO, ThoughtRipples, “GuruSparsh enables teachers and school managements to send information about students’ absence, class notifications, and marks via SMS and e-mail to parents or guardians. Using Gurusparsh, up to 1,00,000 transactional SMSes can be sent at a time. Besides this, the software also comes in handy with regard to drafting of examination results and notifying them to parents from time to time”.

In case a family sends more than one child to the same school, Gurusparsh can be deployed in such a way that one single SMS that details all about the students from the same family be sent. This would reduce the monotony of the parent from going through multiple SMSes.

The software works even if the receiving phone or tablet has activated the DND (Do Not Disturb) feature. This helps the parents to be doubly sure that tracking of details of their child is done in a flawless manner.

As a pilot project, GuruSparsh has been successfully launched in 200 schools in the government and public sector across Kerala. The Gurusparsh services include updates with regard to the Student Safety Programme, Parent-Faculty Login System, School Website updates, Examination Module and the School Management System.

Apart from targeting schools where such technology driven student safety services are no hitherto offered, ThoughtRipples is also looking at deploying a complete school management system in the coming days.

ThoughtRipples was founded in 2007 by Alan Haggai Alavi , Akhil Shankar, Deepak Cherry George and Vivek J Babu, all from College of Engineering, Chengannur.

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Thought Ripples has researched the problems associated with school management systems for the past years. Their profound findings are that most systems developed for this sector is not user friendly. Thus, this system has been specifically developed to promote simple to use and easy to understand management.

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